CCTV Video of Soldiers Brutally Beating Two Marines in Plymouth, UK

CCTV Video of Soldiers Brutally Beating Two Marines in Plymouth, UK

In what is said to have been an unprovoked, adrenaline and booze fuelled attack, two soldiers from the Royal Logistic Corps in Wiltshire attacked two Plymouth Royal Marines outside a Plymouth nightclub in December 2010, leaving one of the marines blind in one eye. The 40 second attack full of kicks and punches was captured on a CCTV camera and the video later obtained by The Herald.

The names of the attackers (the soldiers) are Alexander Thompson and William Press. The names of the victims (the Plymouth Royal Marines) are Martin Jones and Ray Simmons.

25 year old Alexander Thompson is the attacker on the left in the CCTV video. He’s filmed delivering at least 7 kicks to the former Stonehouse-based commando Martin Jones, leaving him blind in one eye.

26 year old father of one William Press is the attacker on the right in the video. He’s punching and kicking Ray Simmons.

Judge Geoffrey Still handed the attackers 14 combined years in jail – 6 for William Press and 8 for Alexander Thompson. Plymouth Crown Court found the attackers guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.

The two guys you see come to the victim’s aid are the security from the night club. Kudos to them for stepping in to break the fight.

Cockroaches is a good name for them, seeing as how they kept beating those marines while they were down. They probably sucker punched the marines and who knows how badly they were impaired by alcohol. I don’t know about British marines but I’ve seen some U.S. Marines drink till they were knee walking drunk. They don’t seem to always get along with the navy guys for some reason. Some of them want to fight after tossing down a few and if there is no one else around they will fight each other. The next day they are friends again. Albeit looking like hamburger meat. I guess it’s part of the culture. Glad those two roaches got prison time.

They should make neuroimage scans to army and navy people, i bet they will show reduced brain activity when compared to normal people. And in USA thing probably get worse because of that notorious tendency towards STEROID abuse by servicemen (they look like fuckin uniformed GUIDOS).
Around here in Banana Republic, navy and marine instructors loved to pitch their conscript trainees for their own entretainment, when training running, they would make the sailors/marines run towards each other in opposite direction. The usual outcome was that the sailors would yeld and turn to avoid the marines, if not, a massive “rugby scround” and battle would follow…..
Army brass in first world top-notch armed forces should have already learned that encouraging this kind of brutish ape-like behaviours in their men are worth shit in modern warfare, as B.R’s macho marines showed clearly getting their asses royally kicked by the royal marines in that fucklands war.

get that comment back ASAP, arrssee!!!….gnomes are behaving erratically as of late. Anyway, when in B.R’s army high school Tulio would ocassionally get into fights with pussies from the naval high school forced by his hot tempered dickhead schoolmates, bah, that naval high school was more like a normal private high school, outside of rugby, they didn?t underwent anything regarding military training…

This is why I’m always a little paranoid at bars, or drinking in public places like restaurants. I can handle my alcohol, but I know that there are other people who can’t.

I live in a Navy city (Pensacola, FL), and I’ve seen many-a-bar fight between rival servicemen, and I can’t help but always think the same thing: In the end, you guys are on the same team. Stop fucking fighting each other!!!

Hey Future you live where I was born =) I reside in Tampa now. And yeah,ya don’t see the marine gettin his ass whooped too often. I was raised in Fort Benning Ga. Witnessed MANY drunkin bar brawls from soldiers. Especially since a lot were just returning or coming off lock down. They all go straight for the bars. All hell breaks loose.

The rivalry between the RAF, Army and Navy in England is fierce. I was on ELT on HMS Nelson in Portsmouth with the Army and what started out as a few friendly drinks soon turned into a 50 man brawl. All good fun though and no serious injuries just a few broken jaws and hands.
The shore patrol are the real cunts in Portsmouth.

By your logic, anyone who is attacked from behind will be beaten. Obviously, that’s not true.
If I were attacked like this, yes, I’d be have the disadvantage. But that does not mean at some point in the attack, I can’t do something to defend myself and get out of the situation.
Again, I would expect at least ONE of the marines, to get themselves free. Because everyone’s reflexes, strengths and fighting/attacking techniques are NOT identical.

Fight, what fight? All I saw was two probably really shit faced guys on the ground, getting the snot beaten out of them…..My brother loved to thump people, absolutely loved it, saw him put his fist through another guys car window and pull him out by the face, but once the guy dropped, fight over. He didn’t keep kicking the guy while he was on the ground, but if the guy got back up….hehe, the “fight” continued.

Soldiers kicking the crap out of Marines screams unfair advantage. My scenario is this: Marine 1 goes out for a bit of air when attacked by the pair. Marine 2 sees this and runs out, trying to help Marine 1, but Marine 1 is already pretty much incapacitated. Therefore, the pair of soldiers then proceed to beat the shit out of Marine 2. Only when both Marines are sufficiently down for the count do the soldiers separate and fight “fair.” Takes a real man to kick another while he’s down. :/

Thank you for listening to my little story… I really do need to get out, but it’s so freakin’ hot! 🙂

Great scenario. Makes sense. The only thing i could question about your theory is that one of the marines get up after the situation unfolds. But that could easily be the Marine number two. Marine number one didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

I remember this case and it isn’t showing the run up and the jumps from behind, intoxicatedly falling receiving head wounds. Then the beatings continued in camera vision.
You couldn’t get up after that

Laxmidutta Pradhan aka Bachana, the Councillor for ward six in Chhatrapur, Ganjam district, Odisha state, India was hacked and clubbed to death by a gang of unidentified killers. Councillors’s brother was also reportedly critically injured in the attack.